>> i continue to care for president obama and for his family. i think in many ways they are very courageous people, and i honor that. i know it means to live as a black person in a racist america. but i cannot feel good about drone strikes, i cannot tell good about bombing people. and just do not believe in war. i think he is so smart that it is a waste of this intelligence to pursue peace by making more war. it is not make sense. >> on this 30th anniversary of "the color purple," your final thoughts? >> i think life is abundant. life is beautiful. it is a good place where all in on this earth if we take good care of it. if we could just turn to our inner guide rather than the outer side -- we would be better off. >> and the books you're working on now? >> and two that will be out in the spring. one is a book of poems called "the world will follow joy: turning madness in deflowers." >> thank you, alice walker, for being with us this hour. and not so long ago, after the killing of trayvon martin, talking about a woman who did not live far from an